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WAR GLIMMERINGS.
j
M'EADY PREPARATIONS FOJc THE\
CONFLICT.
The Ultimatum nx Viewed by London
Times—Activity Still ContiniiCK t the ;
Navy Yards—Orders Peremptory and
Plenary to Chiefs of Bureaus.
London, November 26, 1873. j
Gen. Waletby complains that bis Asbantcc anadllia- (
riea are utterly worthless and unable to follow up ai
vantages on account of their tardiness and cow- |
ardice.
The Times is hopeful ot the Pacific solution of tbs
Virginias question.
The Daily News lays it is rumored that the ultimatum (
cf the United States is equivalent to a declaration of i
war.
Philadelph ra, November 2C, 1813. '
Increased activity exists at the Navy Yard.
Admiral Porter inspected a vessel yesterday.
The dispatch boat Pinta, has been ordered to sea. j
Havana, November 20, 1873.
A grande reception and serenade was given Senor
tiolor, Colonial Minister at Casina Espanal.
Nf.w Yobk, Nov. 26, 1873.
A dispatch to the Herald says that on Tuesday eve
ning Robeson received information which quickened
all possible activity his department in preparing for
the eriqjs. Orders peremptory were issued by the
Secretary to the Chief of Bureau to put the Navy in
the best possible condition without awaiting the ap
proval of the Secretary. Next, orders were iesued to
Hear Admiral Cose, commanding European squadron,
to leave but one ship at Cadiz and proceed with the
ether vessels, under full stesm, to Key West. Dis
patches were then prepared for Rear Admirals com
manding the South Pacific and South
Atlantic Stations, which are now
on their way to order all vessels of their fleets to Key
West, under steam, and report to the Navy depart
ment at that point A telegram was sent to the com
mander of the Eist India squadron informing him of
the gravity of the situation and to issue orders at
once to every vessel of the fleet to prepare for any
emergency per contra.
The Times, in a double leaded editorial, says we
have reason to believe that negotiations with Spain
have assumed shape, which places the prospect of
war at much greater distance than was the case yes
terday.
Sheridan to Take Command.
Chicago, November 20, 1873.
Gen. Sheridan has been ordered to Washington, to
confer in regard to military affairs in case of war with
Spain, in the event of which he would have chief
command in the field.
Secretary Robeson at Brooklyn Navy Yard.
9 New Yosk, November 26, 1873.
Secretary Robeson reached the Brooklyn Navy Yard
at noon to-day, in company with the Naval construc
tor. They visited Colorado and expressed themselves
satisfied with the manner in which work was going
on. The work will be continued as usual.
Arrangements Between Fish and Admiral
Palo in Regard to the Virginias Affair.
Washington, November 26, 1873.
The Star gives the foilowmg, as the points of ar<
rangement between Secretary Fish and Admiral Polo:
The surrender of the Yirginius, with the usual salute
to the flag : the restoration of the surviving members
of the crew, and proper indemnity to the fa rallies of
those executed.
Wahapal lor Cuban Waters.
Washington, November 26,1873.
The Wahapal passed Cape Henry en route for Cu
ban waters.
Sheridan comes here ostensibly ior consultation
over Indian affairs.
A Spanish Journal Justifies the Yirginius
Butchery.
Madrid, November 23, 1873.
The Ignaldo newspaper justifies the execution of the
Virginias captives, and cites as a precedent for the
act the Spanish authorities’ circular issued by the
United States Government during the civil war declar
ing Confederate privateers pirates.
London, November 26,1873.
A dispatch from Madrid Bays tbe North German :
squadron on Tuesday last formed in line of battle be- :
lore Cartagena to enforce a demand upon the Insur
gents for the restoration of 25,000 pezetas which had
been extorted from the German subjects, followed by
bombardment. The insurgents paid the money.
Command of the West India Squadron.
Washington, November 2G, 1873. j
It is said that Admiral Porter is to comrnaud the
West India squadron.
The Secretary of State has no news from Madrid j
to-night.
Communication lrorn the Colonial Minister, j
Havana, November 26,1878.
The Official Gazette publishes to-day a communi- j
cation addressed by the Spanish Colonial Minister, j
on the 24th Inst., to the political Governor of the j
island, directing the immediate compliance with the \
alleged telegram from the Spanish Government, j
dated September 15th, ordering the release of em
bargoed estates of foreigners.
THE WAR SPIRIT SUBSIDING.
A Peaceful Solution of the Embroglio More j
Hopeful than Ever.
Washington, November 25, 1073.
The Cabinet was in session only about two hours j
to-day. All the members were present except Secre
tary Kobeson, who is in Philadelphia in connection j
with the naval preparations.
The Spanish question was debated, bnt no addi-i
tional facts presented by the Secretary of State, nor
was any new action taken relative to the subject.
Nothing has occurred since the capture of the Vir- :
ginius and the executions which followed, to show 1
that the Spanish government is influenced by 1
any tut a friendly desire to preserve peace between 1
the two nations, and, if possible, to cultivate stronger i
relations of friendship. This Government will act :
towards Bpa in as toward all other countries, in cases 1
of controversy, and await with proper respect replies j
to our complaints. There is, however, anxiety ex- j
pressed for intelligence from Spain of a decisive char
acter, in order that Congress may, in the President’s
message, be made acquainted with all the facts.
There are indications that dispatches were re
ceived here to-night by both Secretary of State <
Fish and Admital Polo, the Spanish Minister, from
Madrid of a character which givaa more than hereto
fore promise of a peaceful solution of the present
complications, and it is known that these gentlemen
were in private conference for several hours to-ulght
at the residence of Mr. Fish comparing dispatches and
discussing generally the situation of affairs.
It aeeiua to be the impression that instead of our
Government having to wait for reports from Minister
Sickle* concerning the Spanish Cabinet’s views, the
Spanish Cabinet has conferred extraordinary
powers on Admiral Palo to communicate directly with
our Government through the Secretary of State. At
all events the Spanish Minister is now brought into
more intimate communication with Secretary Fish
than at any time since the present trouble began. It
was remarked to-night by a gentleman prominently
connected with this Government that things look
more hopeful now than ever
THE CUBAN SPIRIT.
Significant Editorial from Piano iW la
Marina.
Havana, November 25,1873.
liiario de la Marina has an editorial to-day of which
the following is an extract : “The Washington Gov
ernment knows to-day and the United States Congress
will know to-morrow the jusctice with which the
Spanish authorities have acted. They will take care
or the national honor without suffering themselves
to be influenced by the cries of the masses who know
cot what these Cuban patriots are
far from our minds a feeling of arogauce, farther
•till s feeling of debility. From our hearts we j
neither seek nor shun peril. If the mother country j
can aid uf. we will thank her, bnt If we must contend j
atone, there are enough Spaniards in Cubs to keep '
our banner safe. We will sell very dearly that which !
was once the ot brilliant flower of the crown of
Oastello.
The funeral of the late Count Siufemando took
place to-day. The attendance was large, and the
ceremonies imposing. The murderer committed sui
cide In prison last night, by taking pollon.
. THE CRASH.
DEATH OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN
MO Z? E FA IL l EES- ONE IN MA CO N
AND ONE IN FORT VALEEV.
[SPECIAL TO ATLANTA HERALD, j
Macon, Ga. , November 20, 1873.
Co 1 . D. G. Hughes, a prominent planter of
Twiggs county, died of paralysis to day.
Hughes & Vickers have made an assign
ment of their property, B. H. Hill assignee.
William E. Blown, banker at Foft Valley,
has failed with liabilities amounting to one
hundred thousand dollars. Lathrop, of Sa
vannah, is the chief creditor.
Gotton firm at 14| cents.
Mr. George Keith was married to Miss
Sallie North this morning.
KELLY.
A MISTRIAL PROBABLE.
SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.
Covington, Nov. 26, 1873.
The jury in the ease of Kelly, charged with
' the murder of Captain Hardman, are hung.
It is thought that they will make a mistrial
| of it. G.
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Crop Statistics.
The Corn Crop Less tlinu in 1869-The
Cotton Product 3,100,000 Bales.
Washington, November 26,1873.
The November statistical report of the Departm en
of Agriculture, now in press, makes a showing lor the
corn product quite as unfavorable as that which fore
casted the short crop of 1869.
The preliminary report of the aggregato quantity
in that yetr, indicated a total of eight hundred and
seventy-four millions less than the estimate for
he large crops ot 1870; and the present returns point
j to a product of about eight hundred and fifty-tight
millions.
The estimate of the last year's crop of Illinois was
two hundred aud seventeen millions; the estimate of
th*4 present crop is one hundred and thirty-two mil
lions.
Only six States show a crop equal to las* year’s,
viz ; Virginia, Georgia, Florida, West Virginia,
Oregon and Rhode Island.
The per centage of deficiency in the principal corn
! growing section, in comparison with the total pro
duct of last year, is as follows: Kentucky 4 per cent.
Ohio 11, Indiana 22, Illinois 39, lowa 28, Missouri 32,
Kansas 31. The deficiency for New York is 8 per
cent., and 16 for Pennsylvania.
! In most of the Southern B<ates the crop is smaller
than that of last year, and there has been
a direct comparison made between the total
product of grain in each county in
1872 and 1873 having for its elements both compara.
tive yield and extent of area. The cotton reports of
November, unlike those of comxiarative condition
; earlier in the season, make exact estimates of expect-
I ed|crop in each county stated in the form of a per
centage of last year’s crop. The aggregate of these
estimates varies but little from three million seven
| hundred thousand bales. The season for picking has
j been unusually fine thus far, yet the
| results may be modified by an unexceptionably
i favorable season in the latter part of November and
! in December, or by storms affecting injuriously the
saving of the top crop. The Btate percentages in
j comparison with last year are calculated as follows:
l North Carolina 92, Georgia 97, Florida 97. Alabama 91,
; Mississippi 85, Louisiana 80, Texas, 112, Arkansas 102,
i Tennessee 102. These figures would be mrch lower
I hut for the increase of area planted. The estimated
: total area is i:i round numbers nine and a half mil
| lions. A tabulated statement of the results of these
1 returns, including the * area and yield per acre will be
! found in the report now in press.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
A boiler in a book store of San Francisco exploded
to-day. Three hurt, one fatally. Loss $90,C00.
Navigation on the Hudson river to Albany has been
suspended, and the steamers have gone into winter
quarters—the earliest closing during the present cen
tury.
Under the orders of the union, ihe Brooklyn plas
terers have stopped work until employers guarantee
them four dollars s day during the winter. Employ
ers generally refuse.
A State Grange was organized in Camden, N. J.,
yesterday.
J. D. Hunter A Cos., live stock dealers, have failed
in Kansas City, Mo., for one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars.
The associated bank* of New York have $35,000,000
in legal tenders.
Arrived in New York—Mercedita, Prisis, Olympic,
Victoria, Spain.
Arrived out—Wesser, W. G. Putnam, Elizabeth Tay
lor, Edmond Richardson, Spain and California.
The Huntsville arrived at New York yeaterdsy.
Iu the Ingereoll case the jury brought in a verdict j
of guilty. The sentence was deferred till Friday.
The Alderman of New l’ork city to-day passed a reso- !
lution to take initiatory step* to issue legal tenders 1
secured by the city in payment for labor on city
works on account.
John T. Irving, the self-accused] accomplice in the
Nathan murder, was arraigned yesterday and com
mitted for trial on an old charge of burglary.
The Canada arrived at New York yesterday.
An infernal machine, filled with powder and balls, ;
withlacifer matches, v as sent to Comptroller Green !
by mail yesterday.
The Georgians, Resolve, Zena, Briik, E. A. Hooper, |
and B. N. Hawkins arrived in Charleston yesterday; j
and the I. B. Buffos and J. G. Norwoo 1 sailed.
WASHINGTON.
Resignation o! John Delano, Chief Clerk iu •
the Department of Interior.
Washington, November 25, ls7J. j
Mr. John Delano resigns the chief clerkship of the
Interior Department, on account of persistent ill
health. Ho was capable and polite, aud his retire
ment under the circumstances causes general sor
row among his numerous and cherished associates
and those who have had business with the depart
ment.
Congressional Caucussiug.
Washington, November 26, 1873.
Congress will caucus for officers SaTurdav ulght.
i All departments closed at noon and will remain
closed to marrow.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Tbo Bankruptcy of Jay Cooke Jk Cos.
Philadelphia, November 23, 1873.
Iu the United States District Court this morning,
Judge Cadwallader, the petitions of sundry parties
asking for an adjudication in bankruptcy in the case
of Jay Cooke & Cos. were grauted, and J. Gillingham
Felt, Esq., appointed receiver. The Judge intimated
that future proceedings under the adjudicant should
be had under the forty-third section of the bankrupt
aet, which authorizes the appointment of a trustee
and committee by the creditors.
LONDON.
A New England Baron.
London, November 26, 1873.
The Lord Chief Justice of ths Court of Common
Picas raised the peerage and. becomes Baron Coleridge.
Ten of tbe crew of the ship Clyde, wrecked oil Yal
entfa, Ireland, was drowned.
ARCHBISHOP LEDOCH.VW’SKL
Hehlis, November 27, 187!).
Archbishop Lodoch.wekl bu been ordered to re
sign within • wee* iron the notice. He bie received
.letter from the Pope exhorting him to ftnnne.i.
ATLANTA WELKJLtf HERAlaD— December 3,1873.
The Usury Laws—Ought They
to be Restored ?
; To the Editors of the Herald:
I perceive that in your issue of Sunday you
take ground against the repeal of the usury
j laws, aud warmly advocate their restoration
jto the statute book. I read your article with
care, and not without solicitude. It is a grave
j question of public policy, deeply concerning
the well-being of onr people, and hence should
be treated with great care and consideration.
I fear you have been hasty in arriving at your
conclusions, and that, however honest, they
will not be sustained upon a full heariug of
the facts and the argument. My own mind
is disposed to dissent from both your premi
ses and your conclusions, and as I know yon
desire to deal fairly with your readers—to
give them the benefit of a fair discussion on
i both sides of every public question—l beg
: you will allow me space in your columns to
i present my views for what they are worth. I
write, as you at least well know, in no con
! troversiai spiiit, bnt solely for the discovery
i and vindication of truth, and for the public
j good.
You arraign the aet repealing the usury
laws on both positive and negative grounds.
You charge first, that it has resulted in evil
to the people; that you “can demonstrate
that no tinkering with the past has done half
: the injury." Secondly, that it has done no
good ; that “it wonld be hard to find a single
man in Georgia who wonld pretend to claim
that any benefit has resulted from it.” For
convenience sake, I will consider these two
propositions in the order in which they
occur.
It is essential iu all reasoning, first, that
one should he sure of the correctness of his
premises; secondly, that the effect to be ex
plained shall be the legitimate result of the
causes stated. Incorrect premises, or a mis
take in regard to facts, will always vitiate a
conclusion. In attempting to demonstrate
that the repeal of the usury laws has done
double the injury to the community of all
other disturbing causes, yon state that “its
practical effect has been to divide the com
munity into two classes—the borrowers and
lenders." Was not this so before the repeal,-
and, indeed, ever since the close of the war,
when the nsury laws wrre in force, as well as
when they were not, and to the same extent
in the one case as in the other ? I have no
hesitation in saying that it was; therefore,
this prior existing effect can find no cause in
the repeal, any more than the lamb in
the fable muddied the stream when
it drank below the wolf. I also
take issue with you on the statement
that the number of lenders of money has
been “increased” since the repeal of tbe law,
for it is notorious that money lenders were
never scarcer than they have been within the
last six or eight months, or .■ ince the repeal.
Nor can I reconcile your two propositions,
that money has become scarcer and dearer as
the money lenders increased in numbers.
Even if there were no more money to be lent
than before, the competition ought to have
cheapened the price. It is monopoly, and
not diffusion of privileges, that usually leads
to extortion.
| Again, you state, iu proof of the evil effects
|of the repeal of the usury laws, that there
1 were hundreds of thousands of dollars on
deposit in the banks drawing a moderate in
terest, and that “the moment the law
was repealed this money was withdrawn,
and every depositor who ‘had surplus funds
was converted into a curbstone broker.” This
is a significant statement, and I have no
doubt, Messrs. Editors, but that it is made
with entire sincerity. Bnt permit me, with
all due respect, to assure you that you are iu
error Yoi. ha.cViecn mi'sinfctrmed, for the
facts are unquestionably otherwise. There
was no nuusal withdrawal of jVivate deposits
i from the banks of Atlanta (tcvwhick, I pre
sume, you particularly refer,) for months af
ter the passage of the repealing law, nor, I
may add, have they been withdrawn at any
time since with the slightest reference to that
measure. The deposit accounts of onr banks
remained about the same throughout the
year, until the panic destroyed all confidence
and occasioned a run upon them. Nor is it
true in point of fact that money was dearer
after the passage of the repealing act than it
was before. On the contrary, it is a remarka
ble fact that immediately after the approval
of the act by tbe Governor, bank interest,
which had rested for a long period at one and
a half per cent, per month, actually went
down to one per cent. Y’on can verify these
statements by calling upon any bank presi
dent of the city.
It will be found difficult, if not impossible,
to prove that any of the financial evils under
which we in Georgia are now laboring, are
justly chargeable to the repeal of the usury
laws. I do not believe there is one that is
not clearly traceable to other and palpable
causes. On the other hand, I apprehend
it will be found equally troublesome to show
that the present condition of affairs conld be
at all mended by a restoration of those laws.
The panic and public distress, and scarcity
aud high price of money, are evidently as bail
in States whero usury laws are in force, as in
those whore there are no such laws. The
depression is universal, reaching even beyond
the Atlantic, and ascribablc to well known
causes, which I need not enumerate. The
existence or non-existence of usury laws on the
statute bock, had no more to do with the
matter than the last eclipse of the moon.
And of what real practical value are nsury
laws, anyway ? Whom did they ever bind
when money was to be made by disregarding
them ? Hid not money range from two to
live per cent, among curbstone brokers and
their customers before the repeal of file law
just as it has since ?
But, on the main question. Suppose you
could enforce laws against usury, how are you
to bring capital into a State when Only seven
or eight per cent, is allowed as interest, while
it con readily aud lawfully command from ten
to twelve per cent, in other Slates ? Money
is a thing that does not come at one’s bid
ding. It must be attracted, and we shall nev
er get it here in the South until we make it
[which is the best plan after all), or offer
equal inducements wuh these offered by other
sections of the Union. The active market in
I Wall street, heretofore, at high rates, for all
! the capital of the North, the money holding
I section, has prevented its coming South in
any great quantities in response to our loud
and repeated calls for it; while lack of confi
dence iu Southern investments has not been
i without its effect. And just here permit me
I to "ay that, in my humble opinion, the pres
ent pnuic, that has hurst with such disaster
the bubble of speculation at the North, will
yet end in a more eqnal distribution of the
; active capital of the nation, and a very ma
} terial advancement of all sound Southern se
! curities.
And now a word on the second allega
tion in your article of Sunday, to-wit: That
“the repeal of the usury laws has done no
good.” Perhaps not. We have at least
shown that it has done no harm, aud we
maintain that a harmless thiog should
not be disturbed. Even allowing that the
j repeal lifis been unproductive of good, the
! faot is no just cause for its condemna
tion. The world was not bnilt in a day.
The free trade in money has not been allowed
that reasonable test that is necessary to estab
lish its wisdom or its folly. The act of Geor
gia repealing the iisuary laws, did not become
a law until the 13th day of February of the
present year-just nino months ago—while
the intervening period has been one of extra
ordinary financial depression in all parts of
the country. Owing to tbe embarrassments
that preceded the panic, capital has not been
free to flow into regular, material channels,
even when the requisite inducement was of
fered. And then the autnmn, when we throw
our produets upon the market and reasonably
expect money to flow South in greater or less
quantities, opened with a panic that locked
up nearly the entire currency of the country
and brought disaster to every interest. We
submit; wonld it be just or reasonable to test
the character and merits of any financial
mtasure thus hastily and in times
like these ? Nor can ihe ebanuel of capital be
changed in a day, even where capitalists desire
it. Asa general rule, money is not lent “on
call,” but employed in more or less permanent
investments that require time to change them.
We can gather nothing that is valuable or sat
isfactory from cur few months’ experience of
free trade in money, and, if our people are*
wise, they will give them a fair trial, and ab
stain from’all hasty judgments against them.
We have taken steps to test the comparative
merits of free and of restricted trade in money,
and we should go on with the work until
something satisfactory shall have been arrived
at. And, just here, permit me to say that
while Northern capital finds profitable employ
ment at home, where it can be watched by
its owners, and with individuals aud corpora
tions known to the capitalists and trusted by
them, in order to bring it South vre mast pre
sent some corresponding advantages that will
command equal confidence. We must show
by our management that we are entitled to it.
Nearly all prosperity in the South depends on
the success of her agriculture, and it may not
be amiss to intimate, just here, that the reck
less, thriftless policy of our planters in mak
ing cotton and going in debt for everything
they consume, and year after year persisting
iu the folly, is well calculated to create dis
trust of both our wisdom and our solvency.
I have thus attempted to show, Messrs.
Editors, that the premises upon which yoi’
arrive at the conclusion that the repeal ot
the usury laws has done harm to the country,
are logically unsound; that while many if
your most important facts leading to that
opinion are based upon a misapprehension of
the real state of the ease, others, to which
you have ascribed the significance of effects
of the repeat, have no legitimate connection
with it, bnt are clearly traceable to other and
wholly different causes—causes whose exis
tence is not local but commensurate with
the Union.
Granting that the repeal has, thus far, ac
complished no good, I have protested against
the conclusion that for that reason the act
should he condemned, and the old law rein
stated. I contend that it is unreasonable and
nnstatesmanlike to expect immediate fruit
from a tree just planted, especially wheu the
financial seasons are such as to render the
work of fructification impossible. First, let
it have time to take rcot, for the sun
of a wholesome political firma
ment to shine upon, and vitalize
it; and then, if it should prove barren, or
the bearer of unwholesome fruit, it will be
time enough to cat it down. Less than this
cannot be justly accorded toil. Like every
thing and everybody else, it is entitled to a
fair trial before condemnation—a trial upon
its merits, and nobody clse’s sins should be
laid at its door.
So much for the case, as presented by
yourselves, growing out of the present con
dition of affairs in Georgia. 1 intended, in
conclusion, to otter some remarks on the pol
icy of usury laws in general, and the right of
government to enac t them, but this article is
already too long, and, with your kind permis
sion, 1 shall reserve wbat I have to say on
those branches ot the subject tor a future day.
i’ERCI.
uur State Exchanges.
An adjourned term of Hancock Siq -nor
Court was held last week, and Larkin linker,
pleading gnilty to manslaughter, was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for five years.
The Quitman Independent wants to know
what has become of its editor, who left tbat
“burg” for the Savannah Fair last week.
Burglary and theft prevail about Quitman.
The colored troop is the perpetrator, gene
rally. f
David Parkman, vii Meriwether, abandon
ing his wife and children, has eloped with a
young woman of his neighborhood.
Flat Shoals Grange invites the surround
ing granges to unite with that grange iu cel
ebrating the auuiversary of the order on
Thursday, the 4ih of December.
Robert Maxwell, convicted of manslaugh
ter at Meriwether Superior Court, week be
fore last, was sent up for five years to the
penitentiary.
A gold vein has been discovered on the
place of Capt. .Tolrn W. Turner, teD miles
West of Rome. It is a small running stream
of water, bnt is not thought to be the richest
nt tbis point, as other indications point to a
more abundant deposit near by. An old
miner, who has had many years experience
in California, and who is examining aud
working this vein for Capt. Turner, says
that he never saw a better prospect in the
mining country of California than this one.
The following ticket has been put forward
in Rome: For Mayor, W. F. Ayer; for Al
dermen, Terrace McGuire, .Tas. T. Moore, R.
V. Mitchell, M. Dwinell, T. W. Alexander,
H. Harpold.
The following is the death roll caused by
the yellow fever in Bainbridge: Hon. Isaac
E. Bower, George Sehwabacber, Met Bower,
Mrs. Billie Cloud, H. D. Darden, Sr., Law
rence Darden, H. S. Swearengen, and child, j
J. H. Merrit, Jesse F. King, Mrs. Jesse F. i
King, George W. l’carce, Mrs. George W. ,
Pearce, Miss Ida Pearce, Thomas J. Wil
liams, Hon, Ben. IT Fruton, Mrs. Jesse
Brocket, Green Perry, Daniel Humphrey, L.
B. Ehrlich, Simon Engel, Wallace Donalsou.
colored, Lizzie Morgon, colored, Capt. Geo. ■
W. Lewis, Mrs. Geo. W. Lewis, F. W. An- |
drews, Jacob A. Zeiglcr, Mit Griffin, Au
gustus McGriff, Frank Green, Mrs. W. J.
Painter, Mack Grass, W. C. Dickenson, W.
T. Worn, Mrs. Pipkin, Mr. Jesse Reynolds,
Walter Dickenson, Mrs. H. 11. Spear, Col.
James Wilson, Shade Bostick, M. i. Bates.
Deaths since onr lest issue: H. H. O’Farrell, j
Mies Martha Sellers, Robert Collier, Mrs. i
Bennett Brocket, Miss Mollio Sellers. To- j
til— JO.
The Brunswick Appeal of the 22nd says
that by agreement of counsel and all parties
at interest, this case will lie called on Thurs
day morn next, the 27th instant, Hon. Wm.
Schley presiding. The firßt business to he
transacted will be a decree for the distribution
of tbe funds in the the Commission
ers among the remaining prior claimants who
have admitted judgments, amounting to, per
haps, twenty thousand dollars, —the hulk of
which having been paid last week at Macon.
The next question for argument aud settle
ment will be that priority bet.veen tbe bond
holders and the creditors, on which we an
ticipate a lively and a strong fight, as on the
settlement of this point depends large fees to
many nble nnd distinguished members of the
bar.' It is an important question, involving
questions of law, the proper adjudication of
which will prove of interest to the public at
largo, and we hope it will receive that thor
ough examination which its importance calls
I for. We shall present to our readers a full
resume of the points of law made, upon which
the result may be reached.
J. W. Weston, the oldest sou el Capt. S. R.
Weston, of the Dawson Journal, Ims been or
dained as a preacher in the Methodist Con- J
ference.
Tunis G. Campbell, Jr., representative from
Mclntosh in the General Assembly, was ar
rested a few days ago, charged with on assault
and battery on 11. E. Carr, City Marshal, and
brooght before the County Commissioners,
for which offense ho gave bond lor his appear
ance before the Superior Court to answer (he
charge.
Messrs. Joseph A. Roberts A Cos. cleared
the Schooner F. L. Richardson, from Savan
bah, Saturday, for St. John, N. 8., with 190
pieces of timber, measuring 182,172 feet, and
340 pieces of pitch pino lumber, measuring
161,026 feet, the total value ot which was
86,700. Messrs. F. W. Sims k Cos. furnished
the cargo.
Mexican War Veterans
| PREPARATIONS FOB THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
—APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES - ELEC
TION OF PRESIDENT GRANT AS AN
HONORARY MEMBER, ETC.
Washington Chronicle. 17th.
A special meeting of the “Associated Veter
ans of 1846,” survivors of the Mexican War,
was held in the parlors of the Dickson House,
405 Eleventh street, on Saturday evening,
where a goodly Lumber of the gray-beards
assembled at the call of their president to
perfect arrangement for the reception of the
delegates elected by the several State organi
zations to the proposed National (Convention
to be held here on the 15th ot January, wheu
a joint memorial to Congress will be prepared
askiDg similar recognition of their past ser
vices as that shown to the veterans of 1812 by
the law of February 14,1870. Another praise
worthy object contemplated is the establish
ment of a National Brotherhood of the sur
vivors of that war for benevolent purposes,
and the restoration of the former good feeling
amjng them in all sections of the Union,
which has been to some extent disturbed by
events of the past twelve years.
The President, Gen. J. W. Denver, called
tbe meeting to order, and stated the objects
of tbe special meeting.
The corresponding secretary, Mr. A. M.
Kenaday, read the list of veteran associations
throughout the country with wbioli he had
been in communication in regard to tnis con
; veulion, most of which had already selected
j delegations to represent them therein. It
appears there are now in successful opera
! tion, associations similar to the one here, as
j follows: In Sun Fianciseo, Philadelphia,
i Pittsburgh, St. Louis, New Y’ork, Boston,
I Baltimore, Louisville, Cincinnati, Virginia
I City, Nevada; Reno nnd Eureka, Nevada:
Sacramento aud Santa Barbara, California;
Leavenworth, St. Paul. N-w Orleans, Mobile,
Macon, Georgia; Raleigh, North Carolina;
Iticbmond, Petersburg, Virginia; Charleston,
West Virginia; Jackson, Tennessee; Tecum
seh, Michigan; Scottsboro’, Alabama, and
Washington, D. C., while at almost every
meeting the secretary has been called upon
to announce new societies created and wheel
ing into line under tbe invitation extended
by the Washington society last May.
The secretary stated that he had writteu to
several of tbe societies nearest Washington,
informing them that there was no disposition
here to arrogate undue control or manage
ment of the convention, and inviting sug
gestions from their officers in regard toa pro
grame, Ac. He had received answers already
from tbo Scott Legion, of Philadelphia,
through Secretary E. It. Biles; the Kentucky
State Association, nt Louisville, through Sec
retary J. F. Huber, and from the Maryland
Assopiation, of Baltimore, through Col. W.
L. Schley, Secretary. These letters contain
assurances of the utmost confidence in the
ability of the Washington association to con
duct the preliminary business to the satisfac
tion of all parties interested, and pledge tbe
attendance of fail delegations. Coi. Schley,
of Baltimore, says that association will attend
in a body fully a hundred or more strong,
with .badges and banner and in good order.
A general discussion here eusned on the
various plans of action suggested, which was
participated in by General Denver, General
Albert Pike, Hon. -T. J. Martin, Colonel Jus
tus McCarty, Captain W. H. Digges, Major
S. C. Greene, Major Laity, and others present
•nd finally the proposition of General Pike
was adopted, which is as follows:
“That an executive committee of five, of
■ which the president of the Association is to
j be chairman, shall have the power (o devise
ways and means, and arrange all the prelimi
naries for the meeting of the national con
-1 vention in this city on the 15th of January,
1834; said committee to appoint sub commit
tees from the body of this association to carry
! out the details adopted by the executive com
mittee.”
The executive committee wan subsequently
made up as follows ; Gen. J. W. Denver,
Chairman ; Gen. Albert Pike, Hon. J. J. Mar
tin, Col. Justus J. McCarty, and A. M. Kena
day, E9q., Corresponding Secretary of fhe Asso
! ciatioD.
After a recess of a few minutes for confer
ence the Executive Committee announced the
following sub-committees :
Committee on Transportion of Delegates—
Hon. J. J. Martin, Chairman; Judge H. It.
Crosby, Col. J. C. Kretschman.
Committee on Hotel Accommodations for
the invited guests and delegates -Col. P. H.
Allabach, Chairman : Maj. S. C. Green, Capt.
John Brannan.
Committee to Procure Halls of Meeting;
Furniture, Ac.—Maj. F. T. Laity, Chairman ,
Maj. H. A. White, Capt. W. H. Digges.
The remaining committees will be an
nounced by the Executive Committee in dne
time.
The utmost harmony and good leeliug pre
vailed thiougheut the evening, and before
closing the proceedings the veteran General
Albert Pike offered a resolution, accompanied
with appropriate remarks, declaring the Pres
ident of the United States, who had gallantly
served as an officer of the army dnring the
war with Mexico he enrolled ns an honorary
member of the “Associated Veterans of 1846,"
nnd directing the secretary to notify General
; Grant of such election.
The resolution was passed by acclamation,
: amid much enthusiasm, wheu the meeting
I adjourned to the first Saturday evening iu
December.
Kentucky State papers will please notice.
A Boy Murderer
A ForKTEEN-YEAR OLD BOY SHOOT* His i. I,'AXD
FATHER JUST TO GRATIFY HIS
GRANDMOTHER.
From the Belleville (Kinaat) TelcJcope.
Mr. •) ones Rambo, living on Elk Creek, in
this county, was murdered on thj night of
Nov. 1. About midnight of that day his wife,
! Catherine Rambo, went to a neighbor's iu her
night clothes and barefooted, and reported
haring a lass with her husband, and that he
had shot off' the end of her finger and cut her
ear with n butcher knife, and she wanted some
one to go ;-u J arrest him. A Coroner's inquest
was immediately held, which was followed by
the arrest of the grandson, John Uriels, and
Mrs. ltnmbo.
After they had been in custody for a couple
of days the boy confessed that his grand
mother nnd ho had been [Jotting the murder
for the past six months, and that he bad
been practicing with a revolver for that pur
pose. That on the night of tbe murder he
took kfs revolver, alter the old man had gone
to sleep, advanced to within a short distance
of him, and shot him in the hack of the head
—bis grandmother at the same time standing
inside the headroom door. After he commit
ted the deed he and the grandmother went
ontside, aud the old lady held her finger
around tbe tree while the boy shot it, inflict
ing a flesh wound. She then had hirn
take a butcher knife nnd cut a slight gash
'iu her ear, the object of all tbis being to
ward off' suspicion and create the impres
sion that there had been a quarrel be
j tween her and the old man. The boy fur-
I tber stated that he bud thrown the pistol in a
pool of water. On search being made by tbe
constable for the pistol, it was found where
the boy directed him, and two of tbe cham
bers discharged. He also found the mark of
the burnt powder on the tree where the finger
had been shot, according to the statement
made by the boy. The batcher knife with
which the ear had been cut was found close
to the house covered with blood and chick
en feathers. Close by waß found a chicken’s
head, and a short distance up the path she
had traveled going to the neighbor’s (Weans)
and a little to one side in the grass, was
found tbe body of a chicken.
Building is tbe order of tbe day iu Bruns
wick, and the temperance cause is on the
advance.
The New Era.
■ WOMANS UIOHTS PROSPEROUS IN ILLINOIS,
from tlie Chicago Trilime.
In April last the Stat° Legislature passed
wan act, which went inu :orce in the following
July, providing “that any woman, married
or single, of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, aud possessing the qualifications
prescribed for men, shall be eligible to any
office under tbe general or special school laws
ot this State.” What has been the result V
At the very first election where women have
had an opportunity to avail themselves of th -
law, they have done so in tho most liberal
manner. They were on hand early at thc
nominating conventions, and, where they
failed to get nominations through lack of cour
tesy on the part of the stronger sex, they ex
ercised tbe sovereign right of bolting, and en
tered the field under their own colors, bound
for a free fight and no favors, iud with no
other platform than the very practical one.
“Let the best woman win.” At the recant
election there were thirty-four ladies running
in thirty counties of this State for the oflio
of County Snperintendant of Schools. In
Alexander and Mercer counties, two ladies
ran against each other; and iu Cass county
there were three contesting the field, and the
victor not only defeated the other two, but
; two men also, who had not gallantry enough
to withdraw and let the three ladies have the
field to themselves. As an indication of the
good time coming, the head lines of the Aicdo
Democratic Banner, published in Mercer
caunty, are significant. Under a defiant
rooster, with head and tail erect, occur tho fcl
i lowing startling announcements: “The Whole
1 Anti-Monopoly Ticket Elected;’ “Cornstalks
Will Make Sugar;” “ Miss|Walker’ , Defeated
by Thirty-one Notes:” “Miss Frazier Elected:‘
“A Certain Bachelor Made Ilappv.” Th;-
tells the story eloquently, and leaves the read
er at liberty to imagine the jey of Miss Fra
zier and the “certain bachelor,” and the cor
responding discomfiture of Miss Walker aL.i
the “other feller.” Under the new regime,
tho sewing circles aud evening meetings, ami
the Sunday night visitations of young gentle
men iu school districts will no longer be the
tame affairs they have been. Anew element
enters the social circle which will not disturb
it, but heighten its enjoyments, for the elec
tion iu Mercer county shows that “a certa.ii
bachelor is happy,” notwithstanding the fact
that Miss Frazier is elected.
It is due to the pioneers io the election
field that their names should be known, to
the public, and we have therefore prepared
the following table, showing tho ladies wb
ran, those who were elected, and those who
were defeated:
Alexander County—Mrs. 8 E. Brown, ele-d
--ed. Mrs. P. A. Taylor.
Boone County—Miss Mnry E.Crarv,electee
Cass County—Mrs. W. H. Hinckley, elect
ed. Miss M. It. Housekeeper. Mi3s Louisa
Haster.
ColesCountv—Miss-Jennie H. Kinstry. de
feated.
Crawford County—Miss Naomi Tomlin w u,
defeated.
DeWitt County Miss Mary Weici_
elected.
Effingham County Miss Ellen Vance >.
feated.
Green County Mi". Kite Hop sin
elected.
Hancock County—Mrs. E. E. Maya! . de
feated.
Heniy County—Miss A. Phelps, deteii and.
Jackson Country—Miss Frances M. bir..-
can, defeated.
Kankakee County-Miss Nettie M. Bin in. .
elected.
Knox County- Miss Mary A. West, elected.
Macon County Mrs. Frances L Hicknia; ,
defeated.
Marion County—Mrs. Miry P. Lometi. de
feated.
Mason Comity—Miss Howard, defe.-.ie
Mercer (‘minty Miss Amanda F < a, ■■
elected.
Miss Walker.
Moultrie County—Miss A. Andev-m ae
feated.
Peoria County—Miss Mary \V. WbF-suu .
elected.
Platt County— Miss Anna Coomb", de
feated.
Putnam County—Mbs Harriet A. Fy:de
feated.
Randolph County Mrs. Nancy i . Maim t,
defeated.
Sangamon County Miss Muy Ho *.* !,
defeated.
Tazewell Comity—Mias Man A. 1- oiler
feated.
Wayne County—Mrs. J. Man* White, .de
feated.
Whiteside County—Miss Agues A. ( > a
defeated.
Will County Mrs. Sarah ('. MauitsfcsL,
elected.
Winnebago County Mrs. Mary J.. Ca ••*..-
ter, elected.
Woodford County—Miss Aon i Paints. •
■feated.
Three years ago a youug lady graduated
from the high school in this city and dis
played remarkable scholarship. .She was
fatherless, and dependent upon her own labor
for subsistence. She believed sba had a tal
ent for the profession of the law. and she de
termined to devote herself to it. She a[; lied
in due time to the Supreme Court for permis
sion to practice, but the Court ignored her
application—subsequently, however, making
a decision that a woman could not attest legal
documents, plead before u jury, or perform
any of the other functions of a juror, twiug
to disqualifications inherent to her
The Legislature in 1872, however, removed
the sex disqualification by the passage ( ' in
fo] lowing act:
No person -ball he precluded or delvaued
from any occupation, profession, or employ
ment (except military) on account ot sex:
provideddhut this act shall not be cons’ led
to effect the eligibility of any person t m
elective office.
Under thiiact Miss Hnlett commence.', irc
practice of the law. She won her first
and has since that time been successful. Her
case only affords another instance ot wuat
woman can do when she sets her mind upon
it, aud, taken in conjunction with the resells
of the recent election, shows rapid progress
towards the results at which the champions
of woman's rights arc aiming. Under the Illi
nois law, woman cpn now engage in any mas
culine occupation except the military. ‘ That
disqualification may even yet be removed, so
that lovely woman can shoulder arm", 1 rl a
catapult, and fire a blunderbuss.
Not a PoßWMLEdjfatNO.—lf tho l'reEctent
should borrow a leaffrom one of his prede
cessors and announce iu the forthcoming mes
sage that he had decided—in view of the haul
times,the general reduction of wages through
out the country’, the necessarily hoavy expen
ditures and diminished revenues of the Gov -
ernment—not to touch a penny of the extra
twenty-five thousand dollars, it would Le tin
greatest hit of his administration. The Amer
ican people, always impulsive and often ab
surd, would cheer him to the echo. The now
sulky and disgruntled organs would vie with
each other in lauding his patriotic self-sacri
fice. He would become again for the nonce
the most popular man in tho country. But
Gen. Grant, although, as wc believe, a wall
meaning man in tho main, quite as good as
his party and better than many of the older
and abler politicians who surround him, is not
in the habit of voluntarily relinquishing mon
ey. Quite tho contrary. —Sprlwjfltld ifr
nan.
The Charleston people are moving vigor,
ously for the proposed railroad line lion:
their city to Chicago direct. They find rival,
ry in Savannah and Fort Royal, which would
like to be the terminal points of a lit; Hkt,
that. —-V. T. Evening Post.
The Savannah Fair closed on Saturday AA
and as a consequence but few other llaa e-\.
hibitors and Hw ettieiele -were present.